Police officers across the country handle some
of the most dangerous situations in our society on a daily basis. Since
1975, a total of 284 police officers have died on the job. Of these, 101
were homicide victims, while 88 were killed in vehicle accidents.(CBC)

GHAZNI - Afghan forces were still battling the Taliban in parts of
Ghazni on Saturday, a day after the insurgents launched a multi-pronged
assault on the eastern city.The Taliban claim to have seized parts of the city and to have
killed local officials. The city
of about 140,000 people was in lockdown for the second day as residents
stayed indoors and reported sporadic gunfire. The highway from Kabul to
Afghanistan’s southern provinces, which runs through Ghazni, is still
closed.(AP)

SEA-TAC AIRPORT - At about 8pm Friday Sea-Tac Airport officials said
an airline employee conducted the unauthorized takeoff with no
passengers onboard. Alaska
Airlines officials said this involved a Horizon Air Q400.Pierce County deputies tweeted that the plane had crashed into
Ketron Island. Two military F-15s chased the plane but was they were not
involved in the crash.
Police said the man in the plane was a 29-year-old Pierce County
resident who acted alone. (KIRO 7)

AURORA - Local and state law enforcement
officials said DNA evidence ties Alexander Christopher Ewing to the
slayings of Patricia Louise Smith, 50, in Lakewood and 3 members of the
Bennett family in Aurora in 1984.A hammer was used to kill Smith on Jan. 10, 1984. About a week
later, a different hammer was used to kill Bruce and Debra Bennett and
their 7-year-old daughter Melissa in Aurora. A 3-year-old daughter,
Vanessa, was injured and survived.The two cases were tied together by DNA evidence.(AP)

SAN FRANCISCO - A California jury on Friday
found Monsanto
liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s
glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and
ordered the company to pay $289M in damages.(Reuters)

KERALA - Torrential monsoon rains have killed at least 26 people in
flooding, landslides and house collapses in the southern Indian state of
Kerala with more than 15,500 people taking shelter in state-run relief
camps.(AP)

Turkey's lira hit record lows Friday as President Recep Tayip Erdogan
urged Turks to sell their foreign currency and US President Donald Trump
said he was doubling aluminum and steel tariffs 'with respect to
Turkey'.(AFP)

DALLAS - Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway has
pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges.The 66-year-old Caraway, who has also served as the city's
interim mayor, admitted to accepting $450,000 in bribes and kickbacks
from 2 key figures in the scandal that last year brought down the school
bus agency Dallas County Schools; Bob Leonard, who owned the stop-arm
camera company that took millions from DCS; and Slater Swartwood Sr, an
associate of Leonard's.
(Dallas News)

Brazil has broken its own record for the number
of murders in a single year after the South American country saw 63,880
people slain in 2017, according to
new report. The shocking number - a rise of 3% on the previous
year - was revealed by the BFPS, an independent organization that tracks
national crime statistics. (Independent UK)

UNITED NATIONS - A senior adviser for the
UN Women is under
investigation for sexual misconduct. At least 8 men have accused Ravi
Karkara, senior adviser to a former UN assistant secretary-general, of
using his prestige and position to sexually harass them.(Newsweek)

WASHINGTON - More than 700,000 foreigners who
legally entered the US by sea or air last year stayed past the
expiration of their visas and the top country of origin for those visa
overstays was Canada, according to a report from the Department of
Homeland Security.(CTV)

OTTAWA - The first device set to be approved by
the federal government for roadside saliva tests to determine marijuana
impairment isn't suited for cold weather, and has been found to give
'fairly large proportions of false-positive or false-negative results.'(CTV)

OTTAWA - The CRA has revoked the charitable
status of the Ottawa Islamic Centre and Assalam
Mosque over allegations it promoted 'hate and intolerance.'The tax agency also identified problems with the organization's
books and its failure to file an information return. (CBC)

GAZA - Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired
more than 180 rockets and mortars into southern Israel and the Israeli
military has launched 150 airstrikes as weeks of on-off violence came to
a head.3 Palestinians were
killed, including a pregnant woman, a toddler and a Hamas fighter.
Several Israelis were wounded.(Guardian UK)

The government of Puerto Rico has quietly
admitted that the death toll from
Hurricane Maria
may be far higher than its official estimate of 64.
In a report to Congress the
government says documents show that 1,427 more deaths occurred in the 4
months after the storm than 'normal,' compared with deaths that occurred
the previous 4 years. (CNN)

CALGARY - A man who was to be deported from
Canada died following an altercation with Canada Border Services Agency
officers on a plane.
Regional director Nina Patel said in a
statement that the foreign national was on a Tuesday flight
departing from Calgary.
(CP)

VICTORIA - The City of Victoria is set to
remove a statue of
John A
Macdonald from the steps of city hall on Aug 11.City Family's Witness Reconciliation Program - a group created
last year to pursue issues of reconciliation with the Songhees and
Esquimalt Nations - denounced the first prime minister of Canada as 'a
leader of violence against Indigenous peoples.'(Huffington Post)

VICTORIA - Red-light cameras are now up and
running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 140 locations across BC.Motorists will get tickets for excessive speeding even on a green
light. Alleged offenders will be mailed both a photo and a speed
recorded by radar.BC
Public Safety Minister
Mike Farnworth
says the cameras are not like photo radar, the unpopular program
implemented by the NDP government in the 1990s.(Global)

RIYADH
- Saudi Arabia is selling Canadian assets in an escalating row
after Ottawa criticized the arrest of a female activist.The Saudi central bank and state pension funds have instructed
their overseas asset managers to dispose of their Canadian equities,
bonds and cash holdings 'no matter the cost.'The sell-off began on Tuesday and underlines how the Saudi
government is flexing its financial and political muscle to warn foreign
powers against what it regards as interference in its sovereign affairs.(CTV)

CALGARY - When Kim Prodaniuk, a 10-year veteran
of the CPS, reported a supervisor for a sexist comment, she hoped it
would be dealt with swiftly.Instead, it touched off a cascade of retaliation and harassment -
and each time Prodaniuk asked for help, she said, it got worse.(Toronto Star)

OTTAWA - Across Canada, only 33 in every 1,000
cases of sexual assault are reported to the police; 6 lead to
prosecution, of which 3 end in a conviction, says the study published in
the Emergency Medicine Journal.As part of the Ottawa Hospital program, sexual assault victims
are offered the opportunity to undergo a rape kit - the collection of
evidence that includes bodily fluids, fingernail scrapings and DNA
samples, such as those left on clothing.Yet many victims decline to go through the process, which can
take 8 to 10 hours and may feel like a second violation.(CP)

Since the launch of its DNA testing service in
2007, genomics giant
23andMe has convinced more than 5M people to fill a plastic tube
with half a teaspoon of saliva. In return for all that spit (and some
cash too), customers get insights into their biological inheritance.What 23andMe gets is an ever-expanding supply of valuable
behavioral, health, and genetic information from the 80% of its
customers who consent to having their data used for research.So last week's announcement that
GlaxoSmithKline
is gaining exclusive rights to mine 23andMe's customer data for drug
targets should come as no surprise. (Neither should GSK's $300M
investment in the company). (Wired)

TORONTO - Ontario launched its buck-a-beer plan
Tuesday by offering 'non-financial incentives' to brewers who sell their
beer for $1.The Tories
have said a return to buck a beer would see more competition in the beer
market without affecting the province's revenues from beer and wine
taxes, which government documents show brought in roughly $589M in
2016-2017.(CP)

FREDERICTON -
Matthew Vincent Raymond, 48, is facing 4 charges of first-degree murder
allegedly used a long gun and fired from an elevated position, in the
Friday attack that killed 2 police officers and 2 civilians at an
apartment complex on the 200 block of
Brookside Drive.The
victims have been identified as Fredericton officers Const. Sara Burns,
43, and Const Robb Costello, 45, as well as Donald Robichaud, 42, and
Bobbie Lee Wright, 32. (StarMetro)

MUSKOKA LAKES
- Amanda McClaskin, 36, of Britt-Byng Inlet, was last seen on Aug 3
walking away from her home.
She was found Aug 11 in a wooded area near Lake Joseph Road in Muskoka
Lakes Township.Charged with
second degree murder and indignity to a dead body is Mark St. Amand, 39.(Parry Sound North Star)

SASKATOON - At 10:40am Saturday, police went to an apartment in the
200-block of Ave V S. There they found a 23-year-old injured man who
was taken to hospital.He
died in hospital of his injury.(Saskatoon StarPhoenix)

SASKATOON - Police and ambulance responded to a call to an apartment on
the
200-block of 5th Ave N at about 10:40pm Friday.They found a man injured in a hallway. He was taken to hospital
but died of his injury.(CBC)

ST ANDREWS - At 11:45pm on Aug 10, two 15-year old boys were riding
their bikes on the shoulder of the road when a vehicle veered off the
road and struck them near Donald Road and Highway 9.One of the teenagers, a 15-year-old from the RM of St Andrews was
pronounced dead at the scene.Police said the driver fled the scene by foot after his vehicle
ended up in the ditch. The vehicle involved in the crash was determined
to have been stolen from Winnipeg.The suspect, a 29-year-old Calgary man, is facing multiple
charges. (CTV)

MISSISSAUGA - Police were called to the
Hillcrest Ave and Hurontario St area at around 8pm Aug 10 after
receiving a report about an altercation between 3 individuals.A 24-year-old man was stabbed during the course of that
altercation and was transported to hospital. He succumbed to his
injuries overnight.
Wladyslaw Habas, 66, of no fixed address, has been charged with second
degree murder.(CP24)

VANCOUVER - The victim of what police say was a
fatal incident of road rage has been identified.Police say Willis Charles Hunt, 33, died following a shooting
near
Bridgeway St, just under the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge just after
1:30am on Friday.(Global)

TORONTO - Police say that a 71-year-old man was riding a motorcycle
westbound on Brimorton Drive at around 9pm Friday when he was struck by
a black Dodge Challenger that was headed northbound on Bellamy Road.The man was pronounced dead on scene.The driver of the Dodge Challenger, meanwhile, fled the scene on
foot.Police identified the
suspect as Marc Laurin, 29.
(CP24)

BUFFALO LAKE - A 17-year-old has been arrested and charged with
second-degree murder in an incident on the Buffalo Lake Metis
Settlement.The incident
happened on Aug 7 at 10pm, when Brandon Ladouceur, 22, was taken to
hospital with serious injuries.The youth is accused of assaulting the man with a weapon.The next day, Ladouceur was declared dead and an autopsy
determined the manner of death was homicide.(CTV)

BRAMPTON - Police were called to the area of Middleton Way and MacKay St
at around 2:15pm on April 8, where Valentino Pauletto, 46, was
pronounced dead at the scene. John
Albert Lopez, 36, was charged with accessory after the fact to murder.Colin Sookram, 23, has been charged with second-degree murder.(CP24)

MONTREAL - A man died in hospital after he was
stabbed numerous times in the upper body after an overnight brawl
Parc Emilie
Gamelin.Several
witnesses contacted 911 just before 3am Thursday to report that a fight
had broken out.The victim,
a 30-year-old man eventually collapsing on Saint Hubert St. The victim
was known to police. (CTV)

CARDSTON - Craig
Morrison said when his 2-year-old daughter, Brielle, was injured, she
was in the middle of a two-week stint with her mother, Christy Melvin -
a woman who Alberta Justice confirmed was convicted years earlier after
throwing a newborn baby in the trash.Morrison said his ex told him she was at work when the girl was
injured, and her boyfriend was babysitting.Brielle was airlifted to hospital on Aug 2.She died Aug 6, after being taken off life support. (CBC)

VANCOUVER - Police have identified the victim
of a knife fight in Surrey as
Leonardo Ngo, 20.The IHIT
said Ngo arrived at a hospital Monday afternoon with serious injuries,
shortly after another male victim with stab wounds had arrived from a
reported stabbing at a townhouse complex near 152 St and 108 Ave.Ngo later died in hospital and IHIT said they believe both
victims are related to the same incident.(CBC)

HAMILTON -
Michael Campbell, 34, was killed and 2 men and a woman in their late 20s
and early 30s, suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds on
King St E and Emerald St S at 1:30am Wednesday.A person or persons opened fire into a group of about half a
dozen people that had gathered on a sidewalk.(Hamilton Spectator)

VANDERHOOF - Allie Leslie, 24, has been charged with second degree
murder in connection with the death of a 59-year-old man that occurred
at the
Hillview Motel on May 16, 2018.(Vanderhoof Omineca
Express)

REGINA - A new trial has been ordered in
Saskatchewan for
Angela Nicholson and
Curtis
Vey, who were convicted of conspiring to murder their respective
spouses.Both were
convicted in June 2016 of planning to kill Curtis Vey's wife, Brigitte
Vey, and Nicholson's husband, Jim Taylor.(Global)

CALGARY - The Calgary police officer who shot
and killed Jessica Patterson, 27, in Sunalta in 2016 will not face
charges after being cleared of wrongdoing by the ASIRT.Only 17 seconds elapsed between the time Calgary police arrived
to find Patterson acting frantically and wielding two knives to the
moment she was shot.
Patterson had methadone and cocaine in her system. (CBC)

HAMILTON -
2 Hamilton paramedics accused of failing to respond properly to a dying
teenager's pleas for help have been fired.In a statement, the president of their local said the city had
informed Chris Marchant and Steve Snively of their firing effective
immediately - a week after they were charged with failure to provide the
necessaries of life. The case arose after Yosif Al-Hasnawi, 19, was shot
while trying to help an older man, who was accosted outside his mosque
by two other men in December 2017.(CP)

MONTREAL - A 911 call was made at 1:45pm
Tuesday reporting a fight between several people and that firearms were
involved.Two police
officers arrived at the scene, where they met a witness who told them an
armed man was in an alley.
The police fired at the man in the alleyway, hitting him at least once.The man was taken to hospital, but the BEI said his life is not
in danger.(CTV)

CORNER BROOK - A 'well-respected' 79-year-old
businessman has been sentenced to house arrest after hunting down and
fatally shooting a dog in revenge for attacking his own pet.George Payne had no criminal record before he shot the dog, named
Sammy, twice in tiny Parson's Pond, NL.The local newspaper reported in May that Sammy had attacked
Trooper previously, and killed another of Payne's dogs. (CP)